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Comey’s Secret Power

Here’s a question: What if the FBI had a lot to do with that fake Trump ‘dossier’?

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Kimberley A. Strassel

Sept. 7, 2017 7:11 p.m. ET

J. Edgar Hoover’s abuse of power as FBI director led Congress and the Justice Department to put new checks on that most powerful and secretive of offices. By the time Congress finishes investigating James Comey’s role in the 2016 presidential election, those safeguards may be due for an update.

Powerful as Hoover was, even he never simultaneously investigated both major-party candidates for the presidency. Mr. Comey did, and...